Overseers of Laporte Borough v. Overseers of Hillsgrove Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Quarter Sessions of Sullivan county: Of May Term 1880, No. 201. In the court below this was an appeal by the Overseers of the Poor of the borough of Laporte from an order of removal of Mrs. Elizabeth Burnett and her five children from the poor district of Hills-grove. The case was argued before Elwell, P. J., of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District, having been certified to said district by Ingham, P. J., of the Forty-fourth District.
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Error to the Quarter Sessions of Sullivan county: Of May Term 1880, No. 201. In the court below this was an appeal by the Overseers of the Poor of the borough of Laporte from an order of removal of Mrs. Elizabeth Burnett and her five children from the poor district of Hills-grove. The case was argued before Elwell, P. J., of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District, having been certified to said district by Ingham, P. J., of the Forty-fourth District. The facts and conclusion of law will be found in the following opinion of Elwell, P. J.: “ On the 5th day of December 1879 an order was issued by two…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
In the case of Lower Augusta v. Selinsgrove, 14 P. F. Smith 166, it was held, that under the Act of March 16th 1868, authorizing writs of error in poor cases, there can be no review of the judgment of the Quarter Sessions on the facts and merits of the case, but only of such decisions on points of law and evidence as may have been excepted to. This relieves us from an examination of all those assignments of error which are based on the findings by the court below of facts tending to establish the settlement which forms the subject of the present controversy. Nevertheless, we are free to say,…
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